
(p.s. second edit of this blog entry)
As I might have mentioned previously, we observe these days a multitude of gaps, or in other words pauses (we could call them "manypauses" haha, ha, h...hmmm).
Let me slap you with a few examples:
The May/June Insect vs. Weather Gap:
The pause during late spring/ early summer when the insects have not yet come in, but it's warm. It's a blessed month or so of sleeping with the window open, without any Raid device engaged. Let those little bastards never grow up (but they will). There is just the occasional molets (moth) flying around your room innocently (seriously, is there an easier animal to kill??)
Early Evening Gap No. 1:
Staying on the topic of insects, when they do eventually populate happily our summer surroundings, have you noticed that half an hour before the sun is about to go down, all flies, bees and such end the day shift and go back to whenever the hell they crash for the night. Or maybe they hit the bars early, like the English, who the hell knows (and cares...). And then the mosquitoes come out - but there is a gap of approximately an hour (let's say 6.30 to 7.30pm) - usually very suitable for one last menta, a series of absinthe shots or one last dip in the Black sea ocean. Ah, what a blessed respite!
Early Evening Gap No. 2:
Accidentally or not, the same pattern occurs in the shift of the Bulgarian traffic police (KAT). The daytime shift patrols all intersections, carefully guarding society against degenerates talking on mobile phones and in the process generating some extra family-fund revenue out of no-seat-belt-ers. The next shift is the night shift - the cops staking out alcohol offenders. They, however, again, come out a bit later in the evening, well after the day shift has consumed two rakias, beaten the wife a couple of times already and is snoring halfway through the Slavi show. I will leave the associations between traffic policemen and mosquitoes to you.
But let's think bigger and get more personal at the same time!:
Wake-up-still-drunk-Hangover-Gap
You have probably noticed that if you wake up just a few hours after a severe drinking escapade and you have to venture immediately into serious activity (I can think of no other reason why you would wake up under those circumstances in the first place) your hangover gets postponed automatically for a while, and you enjoy something close to your former state of intoxicated oblivion for a few precious hours. This is the time when the atypically-friendly jokes to your colleagues (whom you are otherwise nonchalant about) come out (to which jokes they laugh sympathetically, because the red eyes and the hoarse voice are a good giveaway).
The Getting-Dumped Eating Gap
We have all been dumped by girlfriends, haven't we (if you haven't, get the hell out of the blog and go get dumped, asshole!) Mysteriously, the breakup and subsequent mourning, self-questioning, drunk "i miss u" sms's and depression are linked to an ensuing gap in eating and weight loss (more proof of the key principle in life - vsiako zlo za dobro!). I'm surprised no expert has proposed this sort of development be caused intentionally for dieting purposes, yet? We could call it the Sorrow Diet - it's catchy!
The Graduation Social Gap
This one is dedicated to the freshmen alumni, the poor souls. Soon after graduation they realise the need to abandon the college lifestyle without being yet used to the at-work talk-to-the-colleagues lingo, namely: being expert on floor and bathroom tiles and all home renovation materials, costs, techniques; babies - what baby stores are good, what are the specs of a good baby carriage, how far in advance do we sign him/her up to kindergarten, etc; all this information discussed between colleagues with limited and distanced personal involvement as a rule. This gap in knowledge of the professional lingo is gradually overcome and the end result is a sad state of having all childhood enthusiasm, internal drive for fun with people and social sincerity drained out of you.
on that depressing note, we better (or bitter) end - m-f.



